650 INDEX. 



PAGB 



Frothingham, Langdon, report by, of the examination of organs, etc., received 



from inspectors or other agents of the Cattle Commission, .... 557 



Fruit culture, soil and moistare in, 120 



Fruit, raising and marketing of, lecture on, by Walter F. Taber, . . .119 



Fruit, use of packages in the marketing of, 134 



Fruits, insects injurious to the cranberry and other, lecture on, by Prof. C. H. 



Fernald 144 



Fruits, small, in the home garden, essay on, by Prof. S. T. Maynard, . . 225 



Fruits, small, seasonable culture of, 124 



Garden, home, small fruits in the, essay on, by Prof. S. T. Maynard, . . '225 



Garget, how conveyed, 57 



Gas, hydrocyanic, as an insecticide 161 



Glanders, concerning, 537, 558 



Gooseberry, culture and importance of the, 131 



Grange, Massachusetts State, officers of, 640 



Granges, Pomona and subordinate, officers of, 641 



Grape, culture and training of the 130 



Grape vine, girdling of the 131 



Gypsy moth, burlapping to destroy the, 323 



Gypsy moth, description of different forms of the, feeding habits, etc., . . 307 

 Gypsy moth, digestion in the larvae of the, paper on, by A. H. Kirkland and 



F. J. Smith, 394 



Gypsy moth eggs in stone walls, experiments in killing, 322 



Gypsy moth, extermination of the, progress of the work of, ... . 345 



Gypsy moth in woodlands, methods of extermination of, 344 



Gypsy moth, present condition of region infested by the, 328 



Gypsy moth, resolutions concerning the, 314 



Gypsy moth, spraying to destroy the, 323 



Gypsy moth committee, annual report of the 309 



Gypsy moth committee, entomologist of the, report of the, .... 317 



Gypsy moth committee, field director of the, report of the, .... 321 



Gypsy moth committee, financial report of the, 315 



Gypsy moth committee, employees of the, 1897, 327 



Gypsy moth work in 1897, r6sum6 of, 321, 324 



Gypsy moth work, why larger appropriations for, are needed, .... 347 



Hampden Agricultural Society, returns of the, 609 



Hampshire Agricultural Society, returns of the, 609 



Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Agricultural Society, returns of the, . 610 



Harpalus caliginosus, concerning, 410 



Hatch Experiment Station, concerning the work of the, 186 



Hatch Experiment Station, officers of, 635 



Health, public, milk supply and the, lecture on, by Prof. W. T. Sedgwick, . 46 



Hen houses, construction of, 104, 107 



Highland Agricultural Society, returns of the, 611 



Hillside Agricultural Society, returns of the, 611 



Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society, returns of the, . . . 612 



Hittinger, Richard, paper by, on irrigation on our farm, 141 



Hog cholera, concerning, 552 



Hoosac Valle.y Agricultural Society, returns of the, ...... 613 



Horses, diseases of, list of, 255 



Horses, food for, preparation of, 259, 265 



Horses, systematic feeding and watering as a preventative of disease in, essay 



on, by Prof. Jas. B. Paige, 254 



Horses, watering of, rule for the 267 



Horticultural societies, officers of, 637 



